NC Regions

What are the 3 landforms of North Carolina?

• sandhills, tarheels, and Atlantic Ocean
• Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Mountain Region
• mountains, North Carolina, and Gulf of Mexico

What is the largest mountain range in the eastern United States?

• Appalachian Mountains
• The Rocky Mountains
• Mount Mitchell

What is the highest point in North Carolina?

• Mount Mitchell
• Piedmont
• Mount Everest

A region is defined by ________

• lakes and rivers
• similar characteristics
• its location on Earth

Hilly, rolling land that borders the Coastal Plain that includes a high, flat area of land

• The Tidewater Region
• The Piedmont
• Appalachian Mountains

Low, flat to gently sloping land that extends along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico

• The Coastal Plain
• Sandhills
• Gulf of Mexico

What two regions is the Coastal Plain divided into?

• Tidewater Region and Gulf of Mexico
• Mount Mitchell and North Carolina
• Inner Coastal Plain and Outer Coastal Plain

A wide area of water that connects two larger bodies of water- this forms a channel between the mainland or an island

• Sound
• cape 
• inlet

A strip of land projecting into a body of water; you can usually find lighthouses here

• natural resource
• a cape
• sound

Piedmont is a French word meaning?

• Foot by the Sea
• Foot of the Mountain
• Foot of the Plain